So today I rushed from work, late because I miss counted, and of course the trains were thus also late (sometimes, I am so epically fail it hurts) But at least I managed to reach about half of the rethorics seminar I'd been looking forward to since I saw it some weeks ago.

The title was FAN(G)S: Fan's fictions about the vampires of popular culture ( Read more... )

Pratade mer med universitetet igår och skickade in lite av mina insamlade papper. 15 januari är Ansökningsdatumet med störst A, så det börjar röra på sig... Men mina betyg *host*förutsattattsistatentaninterök*host* ser helt ok ut, jag har ganska många poäng från SH och ansökningstrycket till Tyskland är väldigt lågt just nu ( Read more... )

So, because I so obviously don't have the time right now, I decided to start reading to Jenkin's Textual Poachers in bits and nibbles. Since there is only so much lit studies I can get through before my brain melts and I spend hours in the library anyway ( Read more... )

The Diffusion of Foreign Cultural Products: The Case Analysis of Japanese Comics (Manga) Market in the U. (pdf)

At work, don't have time to read this paper during my break... But it seems to be an interesting paper, collecting and analyzing the stats of published manga in the US.

I like the links from ANN's "academic" column but I have a ( Read more... )

Quick bookmark to myself. ANN has added another interesting column to their already good and varied group of scribblers ^_ ( Read more... )

Finally! My book has been sent from the states. I've been waiting for Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre for quite a while now, but it seems as if there were delivery problems or somesuch. Hope it arrives today or on Tuseday ^_^

Call for papers on the visual cues of manga over at fanficforensic.

Now, break is over. Back to bookkeeping *sigh* It's too hot to juggle numbers today, honestly

I think I want to send everyone from SL up to Umeå and ask them to take a bus.... This is how you do commuting traffic. You can pay with your credit card, there are electronic signs that show what's going on with the traffic and they have a similar load'em'up system for the bus cards as Stockholm/Göteborg. A perfect mixture and so far there's also ( Read more... )